Magazine-binder.



G. A. RUEDDE.

MAGAZINE BINDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.26,1912.

Patented Jan. 28, 1913.

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M Arm/iwf 5776' GUSTAV A. ROEDDE, OF VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

MAGAZINE-BINDER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 28, 1913.

Application 'filed April 26, 1912. Serial No. 693,469.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, GUSTAV A. Roanne, citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver, in the :Pro-vincev of British Columbia, Canada, have invented a new and useful h/Iagazine-Binder, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to a magazine binder or a means forsecuring a magazine or the like within a removable cover and my improvement is directed to the provision of a simple and effective means for accomplishing this object7 which shall be adaptable to variation in the thickness of the magazine.

The invention has other features of improvement facilitating the application of 'the cover to a magazine and its removal therefrom, and simplifying the cost of manufacture.

The invention is particularly described in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied7 in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation through the magazine securing partshowing the clasp as open for the release of the magazine securing bars. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the bar securing end of the binder. Fig. 3 is a section at A in Fig, 2 looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 4 is a section at B in Fig. 1 looking in the direct-ion of the arrow, and Fig. 5 is a cross section showing the manner in which a magazine is held in the back of the binder. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view ofv a portion of the binder in use. Fig. 7 is a detail View similar to Fig. 2 showing a means for locking the binder.

The binder comprises a back portion 2 of thin sheet metal bent to a channel cross section and having a number of small sharp pointed pins 8 projecting from it to engage the back of the magazine 9 and to retain it laterally in position. The depth of the channel 2 is filled in with a backing 3 of wood or the like to impart the required rigidity to it and to fill it to the required thickness to support the leather cover 4. To one end of this back portion 2 is secured the hinge member 5 which is bent upward at right angles to it and folded over the hinge pin G which holds the leaf engaging bars 7. At the other end of the back portion 2 is se cured a similar upwardly projecting portion 10 which is T shaped in end view7 as shown in Fig. 3, and is notched from the outer sides toward the center under the horizontal projections of the 'l'tov receive and retain the free ends ofthe leaf engaging bars 7. The hinge portion 5 and the leaf bar retaining portion 10 at the other end may be integral with the back portion 2 but they are preferably made separate, as shown in the drawings. These parts may, in this way, be readily applied to any length of channel. back. They t exactly the width of the channel and are secured to it by a split rivet 11, which rivet may also pass through the leather of the cover 4 and the wood filling 3 and thus secure also the cover to the binder. The back of the magazine 9, see Fig. 5, may thus be pressed upon the pins 8 projecting from the back member 2 and the bars 7 are passed between the leaves of the magazine and are snapped into the notches of the securing end 10, and by these bars the magazine 9 will be retained within the cover until released.

To hold the bars 7 in position in t-he notches of 10 a clasp member 15 is pivoted at 16 between ears 17 folded back from the member 10. This clasp member is bent aro-und over the top and is bent around each side and turned inward7 as at 19, to engage the ends of the bars 7 and prevent lateral displacement when the clasp is closed. The clasp member 15 is produced below the pivot 16 and is bent somewhat outward, as at 20, to bear against a spring 21, which is secured by the rivet 11 of that end to the back member 2 so 'that this spring will tend to hold the clasp in either the closed or the open position. There it is considered necessary to lock the binder on the magazine, a small screw eye, 12 see Figs. 2 and 3, may be secured to the member 10 and an aperture 13 provided in the clasp member 15 through which the eye will proj ect, and a small padlock may be passed through the eye, when required.

the use of upwardly projecting edges, forms an essential feature of this invention. There is also the fact that the flexible resilient leaf engaging bars 7 are secured in the notches `of the member 10 from the outside, which facilitates considerably the application and removal of the cover to and from a magazine; and as a means for securing the ends of these bars in the notches of 10 the hinge clasp 15 is effective, as it incloses them and forms a neat finish.

The manner of attaching the hinge ends 5 and the securing end 10 by means of engagement in the width of the channel and the use of the split rivet enables these binders to be readily made to suit any required length of magazine and forms a convenient means of securing the binder to the cover 4;. It will be noticed by reference to the drawing that' the back member 2 has holes at intervals beneath the leaf bars through which the tacks or pins 8 are passed and held with their heads located between the U-shaped strip or back member 2 and the filler strip 3 with the points of the pins or tacks directed upwardly toward the leaf bars.

Having now particularly described my invention and the manner of its use, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a binder, a rigid back member, comprising a U-shaped strip and a ller strip therein, leaf engaging bars hinged and secured to said back member, said back member having holes beneath said leaf bars, and tacks held in said holes with their heads located between said U-shaped strip and said filler strip and with their points directed toward said leaf bars.

2. In a binder of the class described, the combination with a rigid back member having flexible resilient bars hinged at one end at a height above the back, means for holding the free ends of said bars, said means comprising a T shaped member upwardly projecting from the end of the back member opposite to the hinge and having notches accessible from the outer sides of the T and a clasp to close over said T- shaped member and the adjacent ends of said bars.

3. A binder of the class described, comprising in combination, a back member of thin sheet metal flanged to form a channel which channel is reinforced with a filling of wood or the like between the flanges, a hinge member fitting between the [langes of the channel and upwardly projecting from it, leaf engaging bars pivotally connected to the hmgemember, a securing means for the free ends of these bars secured to the other end of the channel member, said securing means comprising a T member upwardly projecting from the channel member and having notches in the sides of it for the reception of the ends ofthe bars and a clasp hinged to this T member and bent over and around the sides of the ends to retain the bars in the notches.

4. A binder of the class described, comprising in combination a back member of thin sheet metal flanged downward to form a channel and having a series of sharp pointed pins inserted from within the channel which pins areretained in position by a filling of wood or the like between the flanges of the channel, a hinge member at one end tted in between the flanges and secured to the back, leaf engaging bars pivotally connected to the hinge member, a holding means for the free ends of these bars which member is fitted in between the flanges of the back member and secured thereto, said holding member being notched on each side to receive and retain the ends of the leaf engaging bars, a clasp member hinged to the bar engaging member and bent so as to clasp over the top and engage the sides of the bars when in the notches, a spring retaining the clasp member in the closed and in the open position, means for applying a padlock to retain the clasp over the ends of the bars and a cover secured to Y the back of the binder.

5. A binder of the class described, comprising a cover, a back member of thin sheet metal downwardly anged to form a channel, a `hinge member fitted between the flanges of the channel and bent at right angles, leaf engaging bars pivotally mounted in the hinge member, bar retaining means at the other end of the back member fitted between the flanges'of the back and bent at right angles, said member having a notch at each side to receive the free ends of the leaf engaging bars and ears bent outward from e. A binder of the dass describea'cmr prising a rigid back member, a set of sharp pointed pins carried by and projected upwardly from said4 back member, a hinge member secured t0 one end of said back member and projecting upwardly therefrom, a set of leaf engaging bars hinged to name to this specification in Jche presence said hinge member to 13-.e spaced above aid of two subscribing Witnesses.

in extremities, means or hoi in@ the ree Ends of said bars, a clasp for clonsing over GUSTAV A' ROEDDE 5 said means and the adjacent ends of said /Vitnesses:

bars, substantiaiiy as shown and described. ROWLAND BRrrTAIN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my MAY WHYTE.

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l Washington, '.D. C. 

